SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
JOHN BROWNS RAID
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He was born Connecticut and raised in Ohio and he was part of an antislavery family
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He was born Ohio and raised in Ohio and he was part of an antislavery family
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He was born Connecticut and raised in New Jersey and he was part of an antislavery family
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. The fourth of the eight children of Owen Brown (1771–1856) and Ruth Mills (1772–1808), he described his parents as “poor but respectable".
Detailed explanation-2: -Born in Torrington, Connecticut, John Brown belonged to a devout family with extreme anti-slavery views. He married twice and fathered twenty children. The expanding family moved with Brown throughout his travels, residing in Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by a father who was vehemently opposed to slavery, the family moved to northern Ohio when John was five, to a district that would become known for its antislavery views.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Brown (1800 – 1859), one of the most prominent figures in the abolitionist movement, and his family rented a house from Colonel Simon Perkins in Akron, Ohio between the years of 1844 and 1854.
Detailed explanation-5: -Initially, Brown’s business ventures were very successful, but by the 1830s his finances took a turn for the worse. It didn’t help that he lost his wife and two of his children to illness at the time. He relocated the family business and his four surviving children to present-day Kent, Ohio.